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Ecosystems/Food Web
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Niche | an organism’s role or function in an ecosystem. |
| Habitat | where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
| Overpopulation | too many of the same types of organisms in the same environment |
| Role | how an organism obtains its energy in an ecosystem |
| Benefit | to help |
| Compete | interaction between two or more organisms that require the same resource |
| Ecosystem | community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
| Environment | all the living and nonliving things in an area |
| Living/Biotic | can move, reproduce, grow and need food,water and air (includes things that are now dead) |
| Non Living/Abiotic | can NOT move, reproduce, grow and don’t need food, water and air |
| Organism | all living things; plants and animals |
| Population | all of the same kind of organism in an ecosystem |
| Community | all the populations in an area |
| Producer | organisms that make their own food |
| Consumer | eat other organisms for energy |
| Decomposer | breakdown waste waste and remains of dead organisms for energy |
| Herbivore | eat only producers |
| Omnivore | eat plants and animals |
| Carnivore | eat only meat |
| Transfer | move from one place to another |